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Frequently asked questions
- When I start it up I get one of the following errors:
- "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.", or
- "To run this application, you must first install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework..."
- This error means your computer does not have the .NET framework version 2 installed properly. You can choose from various versions for download here, or you can run Microsoft Update and select version 2 of the .Net framework from the "Optional Updates" section, if you want the choice made for you.
- When I try to update to the new version 4.0, the updater freezes halfway through.
- There is a bug in the version 3.9 updater. If you encounter this problem, uninstall AWB, and then re-install the latest version from Sourceforge.
- Does AWB run on Linux or Mac?
- AWB installs and starts in Wine with native Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed (Wine 1.1.12 or later). It doesn't work very well yet, probably due to missing functions used by .NET - please file specific application bugs in Wine!
- See here for a status report of AWB vs Mono v2
- Please note that problems with AWB on Wine/Mono or Wine/.NET are not reportable AWB bugs.
- A native version, PyAutoWikiBrowser (screenshots here), based on Python, is being developed for Unix-like systems
- Does AWB work on other projects/languages?
- Many WikiMedia projects and languages are supported, see the "User and project preferences" option in the general menu. Other languages will be added on request, though at the moment the interface is always in English. You are also able to use AWB with third-party wikis, if you go to the General menu and select "User and project preferences", you can change the wiki there. The wiki must support the Bot API required by AWB. This means that it should have latest HEAD version of MediaWiki or something close to that.
- What interwiki link order does AWB use?
- The software reads the interwiki sort order from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/IW, which is generally mirrored to reflect the order at m:Interwiki sorting order.
- AWB puts stubs after categories, though categories are always rendered the last by MediaWiki?
- According to WP:STUB#Categorizing stubs, By convention this is placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. If your wiki uses other order, please let us know here.
- I don't like or use Internet Explorer; please use Firefox instead.
- AWB does not use Internet Explorer per se. It does, however, use the same web browser control (MSHTML) as Internet Explorer; the equivalent Firefox component does not provide the needed functionality.
- How do I open the page in another browser if I can't use the one in AWB?
- Right click on the edit box in the bottom right side of your screen. Select "Open page in browser".
- How do I edit a page that doesn't exist?
- Uncheck "Ignore non existing pages" in the "Skip articles" box.
- How do I skip certain articles?
- Use the "Skip if contains" and "Skip if doesn't contain" on the "Skip" tab
- Can't you leave up a "stable" version, so I don't have to download new versions?
- It is important to keep people up to date with the latest versions, because their use of the software doesn't just affect them, but the whole of Wikipedia. As any bugs that remain will be trivial; hopefully releases won't be too frequent.
- How can I stop AWB clicking when it changes pages?
- This is a Windows sound theme setting. This page explains how to turn off the clicking sound.
- Alternatively, delete the following key from the Windows registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Current
- AWB randomly crashes upon page load on my system, and I always use a browser other than Internet Explorer when using Wikipedia.'
- You may have installed custom scripts incompatible with IE. Wrap the contents of your monobook.js into conditional:
//Detect IE5.5+ if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")==-1) { // Previous contents go here .... }
- I get Just In Time Debugger Messages when loading AWB/loading pages
- In Internet Explorer, go to Tools --> Options --> Advanced. Make sure 'Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)' and 'Disable Script Debugging (Other)' Are both checked. Press apply and close.
Problems with other software
- Modified versions of monobook.js (e.g. to utilise popups, godmode-light etc.): AWB works, but page loading can be slow. Workaround is to disable Active Scripting in Internet Explorer - see AWB Tips and tricks for more information and workaround.
- Bugs in monobook.js can cause AWB to crash or be unable to load pages. Use the same workaround, or refer to the answer in the FAQ above. If you've updated monobook.js and are experiencing problems, please verify the bug still occurs with a blank monobook.js before reporting it as an AWB bug.
- Wikipedia Skins other than monobook: AWB might not work with other skins due to the skins having bugs.
- Known problem in Cologne Blue skin: see Bug 9806 and AWB bug report.
- NoScript (Firefox extension) or other XSS-related extensions: some features such as "Open text in browser" may not work correctly. Workaround for NoScript: Disable the "Sanitize cross-site suspicious requests" option.
Discussion
WINE Mac/Linux
Wikipedia:Huggle/Wine and the WINE bug has now been closed.. [1]
Seems it should be possible..
—Reedy 21:34, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
- On wine 1.1.9 AWB loads, but login fails and touching the listmaker crashes it. Rjwilmsi 21:47, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
- On wine 1.1.20 AWB loads and login fails due to a "User Check Problem Check page Failed to load" error. Everything else but page loading seems to work fine. :) Making a list works, changing preferences, list comparer, etc. It's a little slow, but so is my computer. The check page error says to check my internet explorer is working. It is, I installed it with ies4linux and the executable is in the normal wine location: .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/iexplore.exe So I'm logged into Wikipedia through Internet Explorer, but AWB doesn't seem to know where IE is or something like that. Any ideas? - Taxman Talk 14:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Wiki search (text) only returns 1000 results, how to get the next 1000?
The makelist via wiki search (text) only returns 1000 results, is there a way to tell it to get the next thousand? –xeno talk 15:14, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
- Not currently... Not exactly sure why its limited to 1K, unless its a slow query.. —Reedy 15:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
AWB
Is it possible to not have to keep clicking save when you're doing a large job (>100) in AWB???
From,
Limideen 14:45, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- That would be bot mode. On en-wiki you need authorisation from WP:BAG. On 3rd party wikis I believe bot mode is always enabled (but I never edit outside of Wikipedia). Rjwilmsi 14:56, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
SVN builds
How do you download the SVN builds? I can get to the toolserver page and click download, but where should I be putting the file? Do I need to delete other AWB files? Thanks. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 13:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- Yup, just extract the zip and replace the current files. Don't use the ones currently uploaded as they wont work (due to the version bump). Will get a new one up soon. —Reedy 13:27, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Article issues
Slick work on the article issues tag in the new release. Thanks!--Fabrictramp | talk to me 16:49, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- Or not. Bug report filed. ;-)--Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:00, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Restarting
The newest version still gets stuck an awfull lot. I made some 200 fixes yesterday and it got stuck about 25 times. And a new problem is that the clock doesn't stop ticking for restart even after I restart it manually before. I hoped so much the new version would not get stuck so much... Debresser (talk) 17:53, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- It's your internet connection. I get the same on my PC but not my laptop (except mediawiki server problems). Not much AWB can do it the save fails or times out. Rjwilmsi 18:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, on investigation, AWB is getting an error which was not being caught. The problem is I can't explain the error. rev 4315 adds logic such that if the error is found the start button is pressed by AWB (normally this means the page is saved but is re-processed, and AWB will probably then skip it with 'no change', so Wikipedia records the edit as normal, but AWB doesn't). This fix has missed the 4.5.3 release, but we need to do something better before the change goes into a full release anyway. Rjwilmsi 21:31, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Null-edit
What is the easiest way to null-edit multiple pages with AWB? Can such function be build in? (I often need to null-edit multiple pages when some admin has made an uncarefull edit to a template and a group of articles got listed in a certain error category and is cluttering up that category.)
Single replacements
How can I explain to AWB to replace something only once? When I e.g. replace
[[Category:
with {{Reflist}} [[Category:
(which means I just add a references list), AWB adds it for every category in the article. And I need it only once, of course. Debresser (talk) 23:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- For one way to do this, see WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Custom Modules#Inserting text just before categories. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Edit summary issue
Looks like the new version of AWB prefixes the last previous headings of the page to the Edit summary like this. This wasnt the case earlier. I am using AWB Version 4.5.3.2 SVN 4312 -- Tinu Cherian - 16:10, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- Its a section edit summary. And i suppose, as you're adding it, it probably does. Hmm —Reedy 16:36, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- It's peculiar and it messes up my meticulously crafted edit summaries; can we nix it? =) –xeno talk 20:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Bots and nobots
I just need some clarification: Does checking Ignore {{bots}} and {{nobots}} cause AWB to skip articles with them on it, or does checking it disable automatic skipping of pages with them? Thanks. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 22:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)